Note that he said "something really great " not "a new mac pro". His wording is just vague enough so that if they do not release a new mac pro, they can say they never promised it. He is stringing along potential mac pro customers.

he also ended his statement with this:

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We also announced a MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that is a great solution for many pros.

I don't trust them to make what I need anymore. They've got to earn that trust back now.

Here's the ad for the new $1700 13 inch mac book pro with no dedicated GPU. The slogan is "For the Pro in all of us."

I don't trust them to make what I need anymore. They've got to earn that trust back now.

Here's the ad for the new $1700 13 inch mac book pro with no dedicated GPU. The slogan is "For the Pro in all of us."

The 13" has never had a discreet GPU, also when he mentioned the rMBP he was referring to the then-newly announced 15" which does have a discreet GPU and is a pretty good workstation laptop. All in all, none of this is pertinent to rizon's original question, except the fact that it's highly unlikely a new Mac Pro will come out in January.

And for that reason, I believe it is not good for the "pros" who run things like C4d, Maya, or even FCPX (which gets much of it's speed boost from GPU acceleration).

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also when he mentioned the rMBP he was referring to the then-newly announced 15"

Indeed he was.

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All in all, none of this is pertinent to rizon's original question, except the fact that it's highly unlikely a new Mac Pro will come out in January.

It's my very round about way of saying I don't think an iMac, MacBook Pro, or Retina MacBook Pro are reasonable alternatives to an actual workstation, which I believe Apple will discontinue, despite posts in this thread mentioning it will return in Jan 2013.

The iMac may compete with the current Mac Pro on power/price, but it's only competing with Apple's own offerings and only then in CPU power. Given that, I think the slim form factor makes it risky to use on long term, CPU heavy tasks like rendering.

"we're working on something really great for later next year," Cook wrote.

not "late next year", just "later, next year".

I have a source that confirmed it was in the works before Cook announced it. They aren't discontinuing it. They are completely revamping it inside and out. I'm sure there are plenty people out there that still think OS X and iOS are merging too, but that also isn't going to happen.

Do you think Nvidia would have announced the Quadro K5000 Mac edition if they didn't have signs from Apple that the card would have a new PCI-x 3.0 workstation to sit in?

"we're working on something really great for later next year," Cook wrote.

not "late next year", just "later, next year".

I have a source that confirmed it was in the works before Cook announced it. They aren't discontinuing it. They are completely revamping it inside and out. I'm sure there are plenty people out there that still think OS X and iOS are merging too, but that also isn't going to happen.

If you know how to use remote desktop, you can just carry around your laptop, and leave your render server at home. Just remote into your sever, and download the files from Dropbox. Upload the final frames back to Dropbox, and off you go...

By small form factor, I don't mean the mini itx SSF standart. That's obviously not possible.
Rather something in the line of the HP's z600 builds (not the 620's) or even something smaller than that. With low power 22nm Xeons, SSDs, no DVD drives and such, things could get much smaller. Maybe nearly as small as a HTPC.

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